Manicure shield



Oct. 15, 1940. J PERRA 2,218,296.

MANICURE SHIELD Filed April 29, 1940 \Hl mum l mu/EN 70R Patented Oct. 15, 1940 r MANICURE SHIELD Juliette Perras, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, assignor of one-half to Amanda Vaughan, Montreal, Canada Application April 29, 1940, Serial No. 332,415 In Canada March 2, 1940 7 Claims. (01. 132-73) This invention relates to apparatus for mani- I do not limit the scope of my invention to the curists and hair-dressers in beauty parlour-s and specific details shown. particularly to providing a shield or screen to In addition to the features above set. forth may protect from heat the hand of the customer being be added that the base is covered with a watermanicured during the hair drying operation. proof material or coating so that it can be easily 5 According to current practice the customer cleaned and kept in a sanitary condition. under the hair drying apparatus and being mani- A further advantage of the, use of this device cured exposes the hand to the radiated heat and is that the customers hand being confined in the hot air currents from the drying apparatus. Beshield is not liable to be disturbed or moved,

10 sides being unpleasant and uncomfortable for the thereby assisting the rapid treatment by the 10 customer this heat interfered materially with the manicurist and proper drying of the polish.

work of the manicurist particularly in regard to What I claim is: the application of polish to the nails in even 1. A manicure shield, comprising a base and layers and to the proper drying of the polish. an arched flaring screen secured to the sides By means of this invention the hand being of the base. 15

manicured is protected from the heat and the 2. Amanicure shield, comprising abase and an manicurist operates in a protected zone with arched flaring screen of transparent material greater efiiciency and increased rapidity. secured at one end to the sides of the base.

Reference is made to the accompanying draw- 3. A manicure shield, comprising a base having in which ing one end rounded and an arched flaring 20 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, screen of Cellophane or the like, secured at one Figure 2 shows a front end view. end to the sides of the base and projecting over The invention comp-rises a base I having its its rounded end.

front end 2 rounded. Secured to the sides of the 4. A manicure device compris a Screen base 1 adjacent its rear end is an arched screen shield of Cellophane or the like enclosing the 5 3 preferably of transparent material such as wrist of the hand at one end and extending over Cellophane. This screen 3 flares from its fastenthe fingers with a flare open at the sides and hoting end 4 both upwardly and outwardly. The tom at the other end. screen may be made detachable. This form of 5. A manicure shield comprising a base and screen provides a wide openspace over the an arched flaring screen secured detachably to 30 rounded and of the base which is protected from the sides of the base. heat or hot air currents from above. 6. A manicure shield comprising a base of As seen in Figure 1 the screen projects at 5 a rectangular shape and an arched screen of suitconsiderable distance beyond the rounded end able material secured to the sides of the base of the base and provides ample room for the adjacent to one end and extending over the 35 manicurists to operate on the fingers of the cusother end with an up and a d fl etomer which would normally overlap the rounded 7. A manicure shield comprising a base of end of the base. rectangular shape and rounded at one end and When the hand of the customer is inserted an arched screen of suitable material secured through the arch 4 of the screen and rests on the to the sides of the base and extending over its base I with the fingers overlapping its rounded rounded end with an upward an outward flare end 2, the arched end of the screen is to a great open at the sides. I extent blocked, thereby preventing the entrance JULIETTE PERRAS. of hot air into the screened area. 

